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The text is an official receipt for payment of the price and appropriate taxes for a plot of land bought by Ammonios son of Taurinos; the text includes copies of all official documentation including a royal decree concerning the property of various associations.
Translation: (lines 1-8): The 46th year (month, day). Paid into the bank at Krokodilon polis to Dionusios, banker, to the king's credit for the separate account of receipts, from Ammonios in accordance with the appended statement, 5 talents of copper on the silver standard, tax 3000 drachmas, for the sixtieth 500 dr., for the thousandth 30 dr. Theon to Dionusios, greeting. Receive from Ammonios, Ischurion the basilikos grammateus countersigning, 5 talents of copper on the silver standard and the tenth (?) and other proper taxes, and pay over to the royal treasury, in accordance with the appended statement. The 46th year ... (Then follows a copy of the document from Ammonios).

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